INTRODUCTION & HISTORY | GETTING STARTED WITH PYTHON #TechBlog

INTRODUCTION

Python is a widely used high level programming language . As per the latest TIOBE index python today stands amongst the top 5 most popular languages . Python is a highly readable language as its uses various English language words . Python is also a beginner’s language whether you’re new to programming or an experienced developer with other languages , it’s easy to learn and work on python.

Python is a powerful language. Python supports multiple programming paradigms like object — oriented , interactive , interpreted and functional programming or procedural .

Python is a programming language that make you work quickly and more efficiently . Its syntax allows programmer to express his code in fewer lines .

Latest used versions of python are Python 2 and python 3.

HISTORY

The author of python is Guido van Rossum . Python was conceived in 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1989 at CWI in the Netherlands . The language python is named after the British Monty Python group .

In February 1991, van Rossum published the code in version 0.9.0 .

Python version 1.0 published in January 1994 . This version include new functional programming tools . The last version published by Guido Rossum at CWI was python 1.2 . After that van Rossum continued his work on Python at CNRI , where he released other several versions .

Python 2.0 introduced various features such as list comprehensions , garbage collection system . Python 2.1 license was renamed Python Software Foundation License .

Python 2.7 version was the last releases version in the 2.x series which was released on June 26, 2009 .

Python 3.0 also called was released on December 3, 2008. It is also called Python 3000 or Py3K . Various new features are introduced in this new 3.x series .

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